How to Beat the Market through Share Buybacks

The challenge is that you have to find a successful strategy — and then stick to it, day in, day out, year after year.

The advent of various “smart beta” exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past few years makes doing just that quite a bit easier.

I have to confess, I am a huge fan of these types of investment strategies.

The idea of having an index-linked, mainstream market-beating strategy that does not rely on the brilliance of a Warren Buffett or a Carl Icahn — all for the relatively low fees of an ETF — has to be one the best deals in the world of investment.

Frankly, I trust these investment strategies more than I trust myself. And I think it is active managers’ egos more than anything else that have kept these and other “smart beta strategies” from becoming even more popular than they already are.